Anthesis Capital is focused on early stage investments in regenerative technologies related to agriculture and climate.

Through opportunity-specific Special Purpose Vehicles, we invest in Series Seed and Series A companies that show potential for global scalability and outsized returns. We target opportunities that are foundational to a regenerative future.

Investment Principles

Transparent

Improving Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) systems in the regenerative space to enable better traceability across supply chains

Circular

Optimizing the use of byproducts and peripheral outputs, reducing waste and improving local economies

Decentralized

Supporting localized systems for greater food security, stronger economic resilience, lower energy footprints, and more community stake

Ultraclean

Avoiding toxic chemicals, GMOs, and dependence on fossil fuels

How We Build Value

Network

Enable deep connections to certifiers, professional associations, CPG companies, foundations, governments agencies and distribution partners in the regenerative space. Our team and advisors also have a wealth of subject matter expertise.

SEO and Marketing

Provide portfolio companies with special pricing and access to the top organic SEO growth tools in North America to rank in specific geographies commensurate with ICP Ideal Customer Profiles. Create long-tail high domain authority content, and funnel optimization. Help create and launch the Market-Ad-Testing framework to uncover all potential revenue streams and target personas.

CSR PR

Coordinate successful relationships between portfolio companies and a neuropsychological PR firm specializing in CSR communication to increase coverage across targeted industries, publications, and geographies.

HR

Provide portfolio companies with a proven venture partner who hired 2k+ roles across Series A and Series B companies. We help our ventures streamline a talent strategy by providing behavioral hiring resources and provide templated tech stacks that will support the hiring funnel.

Sales

Provide portfolio companies with a Venture Partner who has successfully built 3 Sales coaching companies, published 2x, and act as a Sales Enablement partner: helping identify sales talent, recruit and hire qualified sales professionals through a private network, create successful best practices for optimal revenue operations.

Financing

Introduce portfolio companies to non-dilutive financing partners during growth rounds to preserve founder shares and ESOP, and provide access to financial / CFO / accounting venture partners as needed to take the back office burden off the founder’s table.

  • Following work as a news agency Journalist across Europe, Henry moved on to set up Sustainable Pulse, which is a popular online global media that focuses on sustainable agriculture and sustainable food. In 2015, Henry also set up The Detox Project, which provides Glyphosate Residue Free certification to show that food, supplement and beauty products do not contain the world’s most used weed-killer. The Glyphosate Residue Free certification market has reached over USD $500M in under 4 years. Alongside his work on toxics Henry’s work on regenerative agriculture has involved a concentration on the metrics required to enable global scaling. Henry is part of the Science Committee for the Soil Carbon Initiative and is also on the Sustainable Protein Design Team for the Manitoba Government in Canada.

  • Brice is a serial Entrepreneur and founding team member across HR Tech, MarTech, and Fintech companies. He has successfully raised capital for 2 separate ventures, and most recently turned around a Fintech designed to provide offshore funds with onboarding technology for complex investor structures. He serves on the board of directors for a HealthTech Startup aimed at helping employees of corporations become proactive members of their health, and as a board advisor for a Fintech Company helping consumers manage their net-worth across their lifetime. He’s also a board advisor to Forest Nation, an organization dedicated to reforestation across the globe and rebuilding local economies based on forest infrastructure.

  • Robert Blinn studied mathematics at Brown University and economics at LSE. His career on Wall Street spanned investment banking at Salomon Brothers, equity research at Morgan Stanley and portfolio management at Pura Vida Investments, a health care dedicated hedge fund with approximately $600 million assets under management. At Pura Vida he traded in spaces spanning from long-term care to robotic surgery in a market-neutral portfolio that generated an average return of 29% per year. He has founded and invested in a variety of private ventures ranging from manufacturing to food sciences, and is co-founder at ESG focused consultancy Progeny Ventures, where he applies his diverse skill set to aid early stage companies in finding their path to market.

  • Colin Miles Campbell has worked to conceptualize and execute venture projects for over twenty years, honing his business development versatility through work with dozens of multifaceted teams. He is co-founder of Progeny Ventures, a consultancy focused on business development and fundraising for early stage ventures, where he leads business and partnership development. Previously he co-founded Wikiburg, a media enterprise that develops digital tools and content to address local policy issues. For his work in civic tech he was invited to present at TEDx, and has been honored as a Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Fellow. He studied at Kent State University and the University of New Mexico.

  • Courtnay Saunders is a creative strategist focused on cultivating purpose-driven organizations. She co-founded Progeny Ventures, a consultancy focused on business development and fundraising for early stage ventures in the spaces of sustainability and wellness. She is a founding director of Fair Inventing, a nonprofit advocating for increased diversity and inclusion within the US patent ecosystem, where she coordinates special projects and development activities. Previously she was involved in design and production for brand activations and campaigns, and ran operations for a start up that enabled collaborative design thinking. She received a BA from Central Saint Martins and a MDes from Harvard.

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